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Keiran Pedley’s Ipsos MORI podcast: The new COVID regulations + Starmer takes to the stage – politic
Keiran Pedley’s Ipsos MORI podcast: The new COVID regulations + Starmer takes to the stage – politicalbetting.com
On this week’s Ipsos MORI Politics & Society podcast, Keiran Pedley is joined by Katy Balls, Deputy Political Editor of The Spectator and Ben Walker, Data Journalist at the New Statesman and founder of the Britain Elects website.
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Never a one trick pony!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-condom-recycling-police-raid-factory-used-resale/
Just been out in the toon. Train in and out was at 25% capacity 2 weeks ago.
Today around 8 on each journey. Most places shut at 8pm. Couldn't find a single coffee shop open in the city centre.
Most pubs open but quiet.
BUT. The 3 or 4 noted student pubs/clubs I passed were absolutely rammed.
I mean queues outside, wall-to-wall full, dancing on tables at 9pm, bacchanalia. As if it were 2 am.
Can't see this flattening the NE spike.
Basically, De Santis and cronies want to establish a poll tax.
Very similar to when Al Gore blew it in 2000, by trying to cherry pick which counties in which to request recounts. Even though he was advised by actual recount experts NOT to do that, but instead to demand a full statewide hand recount. Which was Big Al's critical post-EDay mistake.
Biden leads by 5 in Ohio, 7 in Pennsylvania and 11 in Nevada !
https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1309252005731295232?s=21
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54269575
In 3 months it could well have burned out among the student populations.
Genuine question - why are the Nightingale hospital(s) being treated (it seems?) as “overflow” facilities rather than primary destinations for Covid sufferers?
https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1309320405489012739?s=21
I'm guessing they just hadvskeleton staff over the summer, and key workers went back to their normal jobs?
The problem with the Nightingale Hospitals is lack of staff. Patients with severe covid have multiple failing organ systems. Treating them requires expertise, and lots of support services, not just hot broth.
* I would be interested to see some proper figures published by T and T on where spreading events occur.
They described Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, as a “bumbling idiot” while Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, was said to look “angry”.
The only UK cabinet minister who was seen in a positive light was Rishi Sunak, the chancellor.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/boris-johnson-boosting-support-for-scottish-independence-dzzzk2jk0
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/republican-senator-bill-illegal-mail-vote-count-deadline.html
"Rat awarded gold medal for 'lifesaving bravery' after detecting dozens of landmines in Cambodia
Magawa has cleared more than 141,000 square metres of land, reducing the risk of injury or death for those living near landmines."
https://news.sky.com/story/rat-awarded-medal-for-lifesaving-bravery-after-detecting-dozens-of-landmines-in-cambodia-12080861
As does isolate...
https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1309145690992455682
It would be a joke if today’s Republicans weren’t absolutely serious about disenfranchising their opponents.
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You do know that it's suggested a film may be made about him?
I’ll get my coat...
Although they are adults surely there is something anti human rightsy about telling students they can't go home?
In papers published in the journal Science, the Covid Human Genetic Effort international consortium describes two glitches in severely ill Covid-19 patients that prevent them from making a frontline immune molecule called type 1 interferon.
The patients would have carried these glitches for years before the pandemic, or in the case of the genetic errors, all their lives. The discovery may help to explain a mystery surrounding the coronavirus: why it leaves some sufferers sick or dying in intensive care, while others remain barely affected or asymptomatic.
These findings were described by one scientist as “astonishing”. Together, the two types of error account for about 15% of life-threatening Covid-19 cases, according to the immunologist Jean-Laurent Casanova of the Rockefeller University in New York City and the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris, who co-directs the consortium.
Casanova suspects human genetics will end up explaining the majority of such cases, however, because the consortium has only looked for mutations in 13 of the 300-odd type 1 interferon-related genes so far – already a huge undertaking.
I agree that it is completely unrealistic and unacceptable to stop students getting home. The question to be asked is whether their accommodation should have been opened in the first place.
It should guide diagnosis and treatment, since patients arriving at hospital and testing positive for auto-antibodies could undergo plasma exchange to remove those antibodies from their blood – potentially keeping them out of intensive care. Since the auto-antibodies spare one particular form of interferon – the beta form – these patients might also benefit from the experimental treatment inhaled interferon beta.
Magnús Gottfređsson, an infectious diseases doctor at the University of Iceland, said the findings should sound a note of caution to those conducting clinical trials of convalescent plasma because if the donated plasma contains auto-antibodies to interferon it could potentially do more harm than good
We are going to have to have an adult conversation about how long we can continue responding to Covid in the way that we are pretty soon. I was looking at the draft budget for our management company yesterday and thinking it was wildly optimistic (in fairness the figures were prepared before the second lockdown). The trade off between the economy and lives is going to have to change, it really is.
It is called the Help America Vote Act!
(Surely it wouldn't pass the House of Representatives though?)
https://twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1309384481523085313
The NHS financial position is bad, but looking to nosedive precipitously.
"some mischievous Conservatives have even taken to nicknaming the chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, and the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, "Witless and Unbalanced". "
Telegraph.
Weekend papers will no doubt be full of stories of house parties starting at 10:05pm and so on.
As I posted the other day, the Dutch looked at early closing and decided it would make things worse.
Does Labour help Boris out, knowing that the next Tory leader will try to blame the results on them and denounce them for selling out the country as part of a joint remainer-foreigner plot to take advantage of their ailing ex-PM? Or do they vote against and let it all burn?
Just like when the respiratory unit took over the breast cancer wards, they got paid for the admissions and the breast unit picks up the tab. That is how our internal market works.
12 month waiting lists now routine in the surgical units too. The worst that I have known in my 30 years in the NHS.